Ukraine strikes oil terminal, planes and ships in an array of strikes inside Russia

[ad_1] KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian forces hit an oil terminal, a pipeline, two parked jet fighters and two ships in a sequence of strikes on Russian soil, officers mentioned Monday.

The assaults are a part of an ongoing campaign to disrupt the Russian struggle effort and sow concern behind the entrance line, the place outnumbered Ukrainian troops are straining to hold back Russia’s larger military after almost four years of war .

The strikes additionally search to undermine President Vladimir Putin’s try to painting Russia as negotiating from a position of military strength in U.S.-led peace efforts , which have but to make a breakthrough on key factors.

The killing of a top Russian general by a automotive bomb in Moscow on Monday, with investigators suspecting Ukraine was behind it, might be one other occasion of Kyiv selecting shock targets.

Ukrainian forces struck the Tamanneftegaz oil terminal, an ammunition depot and a launch web site for assault drones inside Russian territory and Russian-held Ukrainian territory, Ukraine’s Normal Workers mentioned in an announcement Monday.

A pipeline, two docks and two ships had been broken within the southern Krasnodar area, and a big blaze broke out, the assertion mentioned, with out specifying what sort of weapons had been used within the assault.

It added {that a} Ukrainian-made missile additionally hit a brief base for Russia's 92nd River Boat Brigade in Olenivka, within the occupied Crimean Peninsula.

A separate strike focused an ammunition depot in a Russian-controlled portion of the Donetsk area, aiming to sluggish the Russian advance there, the Normal Workers mentioned. A Russian launch web site for assault drones was additionally hit.

Ukrainian partisans set hearth to 2 Russian jet fighters in an operation on Sunday night at a base close to Lipetsk, a metropolis in western Russia, in accordance with Ukraine’s army intelligence.

Russia’s Ministry of Protection mentioned solely that its forces shot down 41 Ukrainian drones in a single day, three of them over the Krasnodar area.

In the meantime, Russian forces stored up their concentrating on of Ukraine’s power sector, aiming to deprive civilians of warmth and operating water in the course of the frigid winter. Russia has tried to knock out energy in Ukraine all through the struggle, in a tactic that Ukraine refers to as “weaponizing winter.”

Vitality infrastructure throughout 5 areas had been attacked in the course of the night time, Ukraine’s Ministry of Vitality mentioned.

Russia struck Ukraine with 86 drones of various sorts in a single day, Ukraine’s air pressure mentioned. Ukrainian forces stopped 58 of them, it mentioned.